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1884es

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Chapter 101

An ACT extending the time for the payment of taxes for the year 1884, in Essex county.
Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 102

JOINT RESOLUTION to take such steps as may be necessary to determine the rights of James G. Field, late attorney-general, to money drawn from the treasury, and to recover the same if he is not entitled thereto.
Public officers, Judicial, Salaries, Public expenditures

Chapter 103

An ACT to incorporate the town of Boykins.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Property, Public officers, Taxation, Law Enforcement

Chapter 104

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to provide for working of roads in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan and Goochland
Amendments, Transportation, Public expenditures, Public officers, Municipal charters

Chapter 105

An ACT to submit to the qualified voters of Northampton county, the question of abolishing the present fence law in said county.
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Property

Chapter 106

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Lynchburg and Southwest Railroad Company
Amendments, Incorporation, Transportation, Public expenditures, Bonds, Taxation

Chapter 107

An ACT for the relief of John W. Green and his deputies.
Taxation

Chapter 108

An ACT for the relief of John T. W. Custis, late commissioner of the revenue of Northampton county, and William J. Euritt, late commissioner of the revenue for Augusta county.
Budget, Public officers, Taxation

Chapter 109

An ACT for the relief of R. Smith, W. E. Perry, W. P. Cecil, James Thompson, James Harrison, H. R. Bogle, H. S. Brown, J. R. Whitten and W. W. Harrison, sureties of John Thompson, late sheriff of Tazewell county.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 110

An ACT for the relief of Charles W. McClaugherty, late sheriff of Giles county.
Judicial, Public officers, Debt

Chapter 111

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January 28, 1884, for the relief of A. N. Finks, of Madison county.
Taxation

Chapter 112

An ACT for the relief of Swinfield Stanley, late sheriff of Henry county, and his sureties.
Judicial, Debt, Public officers

Chapter 113

An ACT for the relief of D. W. Dunn, late treasurer of Bland county, and his deputies.
Budget, Public expenditures, Taxation, Property

Chapter 114

An ACT to expedite the building of the Iron Belt railroad
Transportation, Industry

Chapter 115

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 13 and 48 of an act entitled an act for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain a revenue for the privilege taking them from the waters of the common wealth.
Fishing, Public expenditures, Business

Chapter 116

An ACT to provide for the assessment of real estate in this state in the year 1885, and every fifth year thereafter.
Property, Taxation, Public officers, Repeal of legislation

Chapter 117

An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to invest in and operate railroads and transportation lines in other states.
Transportation, Industry, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 118

An ACT fixing the times for holding the Circuit Courts in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.
Judicial

Chapter 119

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 38, chapter 128 of the Code of 1873, limiting the time to one year for creditors to show cause against distribution of estates.
Amendments, Inheritance and succession, Debt, Property

Chapter 120

An ACT for the relief of J. H. Blair, late treasurer of Wise county, and his sureties.
Bonds, Budget, Public officers

Chapter 121

An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 6 of an act in force February 20, 1884, creating the county board of school commissioners, &c.
Education, Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 122

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34, chapter 118, Code of 1878, limiting the time for contesting wills to two years.
Inheritance and succession

Chapter 123

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 48 of the charter of the city of Roanoke.
Amendments, Law Enforcement, Municipal charters

Chapter 124

An ACT to confer additional powers upon the City Council of Lynchburg.
Municipal charters, Utilities

Chapter 125

An ACT granting relief to V. G. Dunnington, treasurer of Lynchburg, from certain judgments for costs under coupon proceedings against him.
Public officers, Judicial, Taxation, Public expenditures

Chapter 126

An ACT to regulate the licensing of teachers in public free schools.
Education

Chapter 127

An ACT to amend section 15, chapter 20 of the Code of 1873, in regard to the Doorkeeper to the Executive, Messenger to the Governor, and Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 128

An ACT to incorporate the Virginia Conference Seminary, of the city of Roanoke.
Education, Religious Institutions, Incorporation, Charity, Public officers

Chapter 129

An ACT to allow further time for the treasurer of Henrico county to make returns of delinquent taxes.
Taxation

Chapter 130

An ACT for establishing and working the Roads in Patrick county.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Employment and labor, Property

Chapter 131

An ACT to authorize the county court of Rappahannock to order an election in Wakefield district, in said county, to ascertain the sense of the voters of said district upon the subscription to Fauquier and Rappahannock railroad.
Transportation

Chapter 132

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to secure to tax-payers in cities and towns the right of public school education for their children
Education, Taxation, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 133

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of John F. Jones, late treasurer of Craig county.
Bonds, Public officers, Budget, Debt

Chapter 134

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of J. L. F. Campbell
Bonds, Public officers, Judicial

Chapter 135

An ACT to provide for working the Roads in the county
Transportation, Public expenditures, Municipal charters

Chapter 136

An ACT to provide the times for holding the courts in the Ninth judicial circuit.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 137

An ACT to provide compensation to the clerks of county and corporation courts for making records of delinquent lands and receiving payment of taxes on same.
Taxation, Property

Chapter 138

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 6, 1882, in reference to the Fence law of Dinwiddie and Norfolk counties.
Fence Laws

Chapter 139

An ACT in relation to fences in Berkley District in the county of Spotsylvania.
Fence Laws, Agriculture, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 140

An ACT to authorize the Richmond and Danville railroad company to increase the number of its directors.
Business, Transportation

Chapter 141

An ACT to provide for a new registration of the voters in certain precincts in the county of Surry.
Voting

Chapter 142

An Act to incorporate the Farmers Bank of Hicksford
Business, Incorporation, Taxation

Chapter 143

An ACT to provide for a new census of the school population of the city of Roanoke.
Education

Chapter 144

An Act to authorize the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society to borrow money and to secure the same by its bonds and deed of trust.
Agriculture, Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 145

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Grand Lodge of the Sons of Zion Benevolent Society of Virginia
Amendments, Charity, Fraternal organizations, Unclassified

Chapter 146

An ACT to pay to Waller R. Staples and John W. Daniel, for professional services rendered the state in the litigation involving the validity of the congressional apportionment act.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public expenditures, Voting

Chapter 147

An ACT to authorize James D. Campbell and others, the trustees in whom is vested the legal title to the tract of land in Louisa county, held by them as a manse for the use of the Providence church, to sell and convey the said manse.
Property, Religious Institutions, Debt

Chapter 148

An Act for the relief of the heirs of Martha C. Ball
Inheritance and succession, Taxation, Property

Chapter 149

An Act for the protection of fish in Back Bay in Princess Anne county, Virginia.
Fishing

Chapter 150

JOINT RESOLUTION to elect school commissioners to fill vacancies which have occurred in the county school trustee electoral board of their several counties.
Education

Chapter 151

An ACT authorizing the governor to loan to the Fishburn Military School at Waynesboro, arms.
Armed forces

Chapter 152

An ACT to appropriate money to complete the new asylum building near Petersburg, known as the Central lunatic asylum.
Healthcare, Public expenditures, Charity, Children -- Institutional care

Chapter 153

An ACT to extend the time for ‘imposing the penalty of five per centum for non-payment of taxes for the second assessor's district of Norfolk.
Taxation

Chapter 154

An ACT to provide for removing obstructions in Little Roanoke Creek, in Charlotte county, Virginia.
Taxation, Public expenditures, Property

Chapter 155

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act for making and repairing division fences between coterminous land owners
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 156

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act approved February 25, 1884, entitled an act to allow mileage to jurors.
Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 157

An ACT to amend section 6 of an act approved March 4, 1884, entitled an act for the preservation of oysters, and to obtain revenue for the privilege of taking them from the waters of the commonwealth, as amended by an act approved August —, 1884.
Agriculture, Fishing, Public expenditures

Chapter 158

An ACT to provide for the manner of choosing registrars and judges and clerks of election for the several counties and cities of the commonwealth, and to repeal sections 8 and 24 of chapter 8, and sections 2 and 8 of chapter 7 of the Code of 1878, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved August 25, 1884, entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 10 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general registration of voters, approved April 12, 1870, chapter 46, sections 1 and 10, pages 55 and 57, Acts d869-70, which are sections 2 and 8 of chapter 7 of Code of 1873, and section 24 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved May 11, 1870, chapter 76, section 24, page 82, Aets of 1869-70, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 24 of the act approved May 11, 1870, entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved March 20, 1873, chapter 200, section 1, page 185, Acts 1872-8, and which is section 8 of chapter 8, Code of 18738, and section 40 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved May 11, 1870, chapter 76, section 40, page 88, Acts 1869-70, as amended by an act entitled an act to amend und re-enact sections 39, 40, and 58 of an act entitled an act to provide for a general election, approved May 11, 1870, as amended and re-enacted by an act approved July 11, 1870, chapter 279, section 1, page 370, Acts 1870-71, and which is section 24 of chapter 8 of Code of 1873, and to make valid all registrations and elections held since the act of February 14, 1884, became in force, and defining the duties and powers of the electoral boards created under this act.
Voting, Legislative Amendments, Public officers

Chapter 159

An ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 548, Acts of 1883-4, entitled an act to provide for the sale of land delinquent for taxes and county levies.
Property

Chapter 160

An ACT to incorporate the Dunsmore commercial and business college at Staunton, Virginia.
Business, Education, Incorporation

Chapter 161

An ACT for the relief of certain sureties of Stephen H. Turner, late treasurer of Amherst, on his official bonds dated 29th June, 1888.
Bonds

Chapter 162

An ACT to amend an act approved March 17, 1884, requiring railroad companies to construct cattle-guards.
Agriculture, Property

Chapter 163

An ACT for the relief of the Shenandoah Valley and other agricultural societies.
Agriculture, Taxation, Public expenditures, Amendments

Chapter 164

An ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 166 of Code of 1878, in relation to service of process against or notice to a corporation.
Business, Judicial, Legislative Amendments, Incorporation

Chapter 165

An ACT to provide for the establishment of the South-western lunatic asylum
Healthcare, Children -- Institutional care, Public expenditures

Chapter 166

An ACT incorporating the Willis River Improvement Company, for the purpose of the improvement and navigation of Willis river, in Cumberland county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Business, Transportation, Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 167

An ACT for the relief of Hugh M. Patton, late deputy treasurer of Culpeper county.
Taxation, Public officers, Budget

Chapter 168

An ACT to prevent the spreading of diseases among domestic animals.
Agriculture

Chapter 169

JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Board of Public Works to pay for guarding the public storehouse.
Public expenditures, Utilities

Chapter 170

An AOT for the relief of John W. Irvine, of Amherst county.
Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 171

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved August 27, 1884, entitled an act to declare the true intent and meaning of, and to amend and re-enact section 5 of chapter 84 of Acts of 1881-2, approved February 14, 1882.
Bonds

Chapter 172

An Act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax county to borrow money and issue bonds.
Bonds, Budget, Prisons, Public expenditures, Transportation

Chapter 173

An ACT to amend section 11 of chapter 7 of the Code of 1878, in regard to registration of voters.
Voting, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 174

An ACT to authorize the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company to invest in, and operate railroads and transportation lines chartered by the laws of other states.
Transportation, Business, Taxation

Chapter 175

An ACT to furnish artificial limbs to soldiers who have lost them during the late war.
Armed forces, Healthcare

Chapter 176

An ACT for the relief of Charles H. Hart, late treasurer of Isle of Wight county.
Taxation, Public officers

Chapter 177

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of Peyton R. Ford, late collector of Madison township of Charlotte county, Va.
Bonds, Public expenditures

Chapter 178

An Act to incorporate the Byrd Cemetery Company, in Goochland county.
Cemeteries, Property, Business, Public officers

Chapter 179

An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 340, sections 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Session Acts 1883-4, in relation to the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute.
Education, Civil Rights, Amendments, Employment and labor, Public officers

Chapter 180

An ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the county of Bedford to supplement the compensation of the treasurer of said county for the year 1884.
Budget, Public officers

Chapter 181

An ACT for the relief of Lemuel W. Haynes
Amendments, Judicial, Public expenditures, Debt

Chapter 182

An ACT to provide for a register of all the property of the state and the public institutions of the state, real and personal, including choses-in-action, &c.
Property, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 183

An ACT requiring the superintendent of schools in the county of Hanover, to pay over to the trustees of Hall’s Free School in said county, in each and every year from the moneys belonging to the school fund of Beaver Dam district in said county, a sum equal to that appropriated to any other school with the like number of scholars in said district.
Education

Chapter 184

An ACT for the relief of C. W. Hill, late judge of the hustings court of the city of Portsmouth.
Judicial

Chapter 185

An ACT to provide for the rebinding and indexing of cer-
Property, Public expenditures, Legislative Amendments

Chapter 186

An ACT for the relief of the sureties of J. H. Blair, late treasurer of Wise county.
Public expenditures, Debt, Business

Chapter 187

An ACT to provide for a new registration of the voters of the city of Richmond.
Voting

Chapter 188

An ACT for the relief of C. M. Adkinson, of Halifax county.
Agriculture

Chapter 189

An ACT to incorporate the Bowling Green Tobacco Association.
Incorporation, Business

Chapter 190

An ACT authorizing the board of visitors of the Virginia Military Institute, to sell and convey certain lots of land not needed for the purposes of said institution.
Transportation

Chapter 191

An ACT for the relief of William H. McBride, of Goochland.
Armed forces, Debt, Pensions

Chapter 192

An ACT directing the Auditor of Public Accounts to suspend proceedings against the sureties of George S. Cady, late sheriff of Culpeper county.
Bonds, Public officers, Judicial, Debt

Chapter 193

An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved March 17, 1884, entitled an act for the relief of the sureties of Charles W. Walker, late treasurer of Giles county, Virginia.
Bonds, Public expenditures, Public officers

Chapter 194

An ACT for the protection of fish in New River or its tributaries.
Fishing

Chapter 195

An ACT to empower the board of supervisors of Bath county, to repair a part of the Warm Springs and Huntersville turnpike road.
Transportation, Public expenditures, Taxation

Chapter 196

An ACT to amend and re-enact section 106 of an act enti-
Taxation, Business, Agriculture

Chapter 197

An Act to incorporate the Association of Sons and Daughters of Honor and Liberty, of Lunenburg county, Virginia.
Incorporation, Charity, Death and burial

Chapter 198

An ACT to require banks incorporated within the commonwealth of Virginia, to make stated reports to the auditor of public accounts.
Business, Public officers, Judicial, Taxation

Chapter 199

An ACT to incorporate the Exchange Bank of Floyd county.
Business, Amendments, Public expenditures

Chapter 200

An ACT to incorporate the town of Clifton Forge in the county of Alleghany.
Incorporation, Municipal charters, Voting, Taxation, Property, Business, Alcohol, Public officers, Civil Rights
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